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Belt to sheave clearance

Snoman

Snoman

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I'm going to be running the gates belt and will be checking the clearance. I've never had to take a spider off and my question is are all the special tools needed? Clutch holder, spider nut socket and spider socket. Or are there old garage tricks??
 
PoPo said:
I'm going to be running the gates belt and will be checking the clearance. I've never had to take a spider off and my question is are all the special tools needed? Clutch holder, spider nut socket and spider socket. Or are there old garage tricks??
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The spider jam nut and spider are torqued on pretty tight. The spider is torqued 280-300 foot pounds and the spider jam nut is torqued 290-330 foot pounds. So to answer your question I'd say buy the tools and forget the costly shortcut.
 
Bigfuse said:
The spider jam nut and spider are torqued on pretty tight. The spider is torqued 280-300 foot pounds and the spider jam nut is torqued 290-330 foot pounds. So to answer your question I'd say buy the tools and forget the costly shortcut.
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Hey Bigfuse, ya I kinda thought so. I watched a video from slp of that and he used all the tools and heat.
Do you know off hand if the 15 s has enough clearance to run gates?
 
PoPo said:
Hey Bigfuse, ya I kinda thought so. I watched a video from slp of that and he used all the tools and heat.
Do you know off hand if the 15 s has enough clearance to run gates?
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I had enough clearance in mine.
 
PoPo said:
Hey Bigfuse, ya I kinda thought so. I watched a video from slp of that and he used all the tools and heat.
Do you know off hand if the 15 s has enough clearance to run gates?
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I had enough clearance on my 15's clutch for a Gates, I still tightened it up another 8 thou.
 
The only thing is moving spider in more like he did changes load. Let's say the stock was a perfect 1.19" load Polaris proclaims, by moving it in changes load slightly. So the 0.020" he moved it in for belt to sheave is now 1.21" load now.
Just sayin :)
 
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